On Mon, Nov 07, 2022 at 12:01:40PM +0100, Matti Möll wrote: > On 16.10.22 00:40, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > > > If one likes the output from "submodule--helper list" so much, I > > think your "ls-files" above should be the closest. There seems to > > have existed some logic to squash unmerged entries down to a single > > one, too (git-submodule.sh in Git 2.0.0 era has a module_list shell > > function that shows what "helper list" should be doing), though. > > I do actually like that submodule is hoisted out of the scripts but as a > matter of fact it seems that the openembedded folks relied on the > "submodule--helper list" call and with later git versions that doesn't work > anymore. > > https://github.com/openembedded/openembedded-core/commit/6d9364e5f3535954f65cbbc694ee7933ac1d664f > > At the end of the day it's kinda their fault to depend on the > submodule--helper but it does hinder adoption of new git versions for people > using openembedded. Yeah, I agree. It's unfortunate, but I think we consider anything with '--' in the builtin name to be outside of our compatibility guarantee. I recall a recent message on the list which where Junio said as much, but I can't seem to find it :-<. Thanks, Taylor
